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A week is a long time in perlitics

Well my extended bank holiday weekend break turned into to be a nice long week away in the New Forest. So that’s a whole week without computers, internet and Perl ;-)

So on my return its nice to see a bustling RSS feed of Perl posts! In fact in quantity the Ironman feed out did the Ruby Corner feed I also subscribe to. Looks like a very vibrant community to me.

And its not just quantity because there have been some colourful posts while I’ve been away!….

Moose certainly claimed most of the headlines over past week! Moose brings a lot of enjoyment and productivity to my Perl but I’m pragmatic enough to know its not a panacea for all solutions (though I am dreaming of that day!).

HTTP::Engine and PSGI. I have been playing with HTTP::Engine and had to overcome some stumbling blocks with streaming out dynamic data (that reminds me I need to do blog post on that!), so its going to be interesting to see what PSGI brings to the table.

Well at least I was when I checked yesterday because looking at it today and I see I’m now a Paper Man! sob!? Hmmm… well hopefully things will change after I make this post!

So whats been missed that I can add to the news:

GitHub contest is over. Its not clear yet but Ultraist Perl entry appears to have came 6th (with score of 2475) and could be the highest dynamic language solution. Well done Ultraist

Perl jumps up two places on Tiobe index to #6 (swapping places with Python).

NB. And this as nothing to do with this because cpan.org still shows same search figures. There have been some additions to cpantesters & perldoc sites which may have helped but I believe a lot of the difference can hopefully be attributed to Ironman and the resurgence in Perl blog posts. Well done everyone methinks!

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My name is Barry Walsh. I'm a freelance IT consultant from London, UK. [more]

This blog is mostly about Perl programming because this is what I use and love (and occasionally hate!) for the majority of my working (and sometimes non-working) day.

Occasionally I will touch on other subjects like PostgreSQL, Mac OSX, UNIX, Linux, Ruby, jQuery, Javascript, XML and many more techie things that I also play with regularly. Other non techie aspects of my life may slip in now and again but I'll try and keep that to a minimum because its normally boring anyway :)